Contents
List of illustrations page vii
List of contributors x
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction
AVIEL ROSHWALD AND RICHARD STITES 1
1 Days and nights in wartime Russia: cultural life, 1914-1917
RICHARD STITES 8
2 German culture in the Great War
PETER JELAVICH 32
3 Culture in Poland during World War I
HAROLD B. SEGEL 58
4 Jewish cultural identity in Eastern and Central Europe during the Great War
AVIEL ROSHWALD 89
5 The tragic carnival: Austrian culture in the First World War
STEVEN BELLER 127
6 Ambivalent patriots: Czech culture in the Great War
CLAIRE NOLTE 162
7 Culture in Hungary during World War I
JOSEPH HELD 176
8 Culture in the South Slavic lands, 1914-1918
ANDREW WACHTEL 193
9 Between apology and denial: Bulgarian culture during World War I
EVELINA KELBETCHEVA 215
10 Romania: war, occupation, liberation
MARIA BUCUR 243
11 Occupation, propaganda, and the idea of Belgium
SOPHIE .DE SCHAEPDRIJVER 267
12 Cultural life in France, 1914-1918
MARC FERRO 295
13 The impact of World War I on Italian political culture
WALTER L. ADAMSON 308
14 Popular culture in wartime Britain
JAY WINTER 330
Conclusion
AVIEL ROSHWALD AND RICHARD STITES 349
Notes 359
Index 424